Patents by Inventor Seong-Wook Moon
Seong-Wook Moon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240075920Abstract: A method for controlling driving of a hybrid electric vehicle includes collecting driving data while the hybrid electric vehicle is driven, determining whether the hybrid electric vehicle enters a first mode corresponding to emergency driving of the hybrid electric vehicle or a second mode corresponding to control in preparation for the emergency driving, and controlling the hybrid electric vehicle in accordance with a mode that the hybrid electric vehicle enters among the first mode and the second mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Sung Bae Jeon, Seong Wook Moon, Do Hwa Kim, Gyu Ri Lee, Sung Il Jung, Jae Young Park, Jeong Eun Kim, Hui Un Son
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Publication number: 20240001909Abstract: Provided are a hybrid electric vehicle and driving mode control method and apparatus for the same. An engine start request is generated by a heating controller of the vehicle. A second time is determined on basis of a first time between the cancellation of a prevent engine start request and the generation of the engine start request. The engine is controlled so that the engine is further maintained in a started state during the second time after the engine start request is cancelled.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jin Kyeom CHO, Sung Deok KIM, Ku Young KANG, Seong Wook MOON, Sung Chan NA
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Patent number: 11858501Abstract: An emergency braking function control method of a vehicle includes detecting an obstacle ahead of the vehicle, the vehicle being in a state of being travelable in a forward direction using power of a power source, in response to the detecting, determining a first steering angle and a second steering angle, the first steering angle being a maximum steering angle at which the vehicle collides with the obstacle and the second steering angle being a steering angle at which the vehicle turns while maintaining a minimum safe distance from the obstacle, the first and second steering angles being determined based on a distance to the obstacle, a heading of the obstacle, and an input steering angle, and determining whether to change an emergency braking function based on the input steering angle, the first steering angle, or the second steering angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jin Kyeom Cho, Yeon Bok Kim, Hui Un Son, Tae Wook Park, Seong Wook Moon
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Publication number: 20230415740Abstract: A vehicle and an acceleration limit control method thereof, includes obtaining a driving score of a driver, determining a driving score change amount of the driver based on traveling information measured or generated when the vehicle is driving, determining a current driving score based on the determined change amount of the driving score and the obtained driving score, and setting an acceleration limit level or changing a preset acceleration limit level based on the determined current driving score.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Do Hwa KIM, Seong Wook MOON, Hui Un SON, Gyu Ri LEE, Sung Il JUNG, Jae Young PARK, Jeong Eun KIM, Sung Bae JEON
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Publication number: 20230256958Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for controlling a valet mode of a vehicle. The method may include activating a valet mode, determining a parking environment of the vehicle being parked in a parking area, when the valet mode is set. Based on the parking environment of the vehicle, a first signal or a second signal may be output. The first signal may be configured to permit parking of the vehicle in the parking area. The second signal may be configured to prohibit parking of the vehicle in the parking area. Determining the parking environment of the vehicle may include determining, based on the parking environment, whether to limit a vehicle control of the vehicle and/or a degree of limit of the vehicle control.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Gyu Ri Lee, Seong Wook Moon, Do Hwa Kim, Sung Bae Jeon, Sung Il Jung, Jae Young Park, Jeong Eun Kim, Hui Un Son
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Publication number: 20230227013Abstract: Disclosed is an acceleration limit function relaxation apparatus. The apparatus may determine, based on information indicating manipulation of a brake pedal of a vehicle during an acceleration limit mode, that the vehicle is in a temporary braking state, determine a vehicle speed, measured at a start of the manipulation of the brake pedal, as a target vehicle speed for reacceleration, determine, based on information indicating manipulation of an accelerator pedal, that the vehicle is reaccelerated, determine an acceleration limit relaxation factor based on a cumulative braking amount calculated by measuring amounts of braking during the temporary braking state, and cause acceleration limit relaxation of the vehicle by applying the acceleration limit relaxation factor to an acceleration limit of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Do Hwa Kim, Seong Wook Moon, Hui Un Son, Gyu Ri Lee, Sung Il Jung, Jae Young Park, Jeong Eun Kim, Sung Bae Jeon
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Publication number: 20230202484Abstract: Disclosed may be a method for evaluating valet mode driving of a vehicle. The method includes determining whether or not a valet mode entry condition may be satisfied, determining a plurality of driving evaluation factors for valet parking based on at least one of a vehicle status or a driving environment, upon determining that the valet mode entry condition may be satisfied, calculating a valet driving evaluation score by analyzing the determined driving evaluation factors and collecting result values acquired through analysis, and displaying the calculated valet driving evaluation score.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Gyu Ri Lee, Seong Wook Moon, Do Hwa Kim, Sung Bae Jeon, Sung Il Jung, Jae Young Park, Jeong Eun Kim, Hui Un Son
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Publication number: 20230174046Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hybrid electric vehicle configured to respond to a required torque while reducing exhaust gas emission in a situation where catalyst heating of an engine is not completed, and a driving control method for the hybrid electric vehicle. The driving control method of the hybrid electric vehicle comprises entering catalyst heating control of an engine when there is a request for catalyst heating and a required torque exceeds a first threshold during traveling in a first mode using an electric motor as a driving source, and entering acceleration feeling increase control when the required torque exceeds a second threshold greater than the first threshold, in which the second threshold is set between the first threshold and a third threshold that is a reference for an entry into a second mode using the engine as the driving source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Jin Kyeom Cho, Byeong Hee Yang, Seong Wook Moon, Sung Deok Kim
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Patent number: 11634036Abstract: A method of controlling an electrified vehicle to prevent a collision thereof includes: determining whether an accelerator pedal is erroneously operated in the situation in which an obstacle is detected to be present in a traveling path; and when it is determined that the accelerator pedal is erroneously operated, performing braking control such that at least one of hydraulic braking or regenerative braking is selectively performed in a plurality of braking sections determined based on a current vehicle speed and a distance to the obstacle.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jin Kyeom Cho, Yeon Bok Kim, Sung Deok Kim, Tae Wook Park, Seong Wook Moon
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Publication number: 20230119914Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an eco-friendly vehicle in which valet mode can be controlled with detailed control levels, and a method for controlling the same mode. A method for controlling valet mode of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises determining whether an entry condition for the valet mode to be satisfied, determining, if the condition being satisfied, one level among a plurality of levels for the valet mode based on at least one of a vehicle state and a driving environment and performing a vehicle control according to the determined level, wherein the plurality of levels are different from one another in whether or not a restriction to be made to at least part of a powertrain and a function or a degree of the restriction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: GYU RI LEE, Seong Wook MOON, Do Hwa KIM, Sung Bae JEON, Sung Il JUNH, Jae Young PARK, Jeong Eun KIM, Hui Un SON
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Publication number: 20220388496Abstract: Disclosed herein are an emergency operating system and an emergency operating method for a hybrid vehicle with a damaged bearing of an engine, which are capable of preventing a bearing from being further damaged due to a drive motor and a hybrid starter and generator (HSG) when damage to the bearing installed in an engine is detected and capable of driving the hybrid vehicle and which include a bearing damage detection operation, an engine driving maintaining operation, a first state of charge (SOC) comparison operation, and a first emergency operating operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Jun-Ho PARK, Sung-Woo NAM, Pan-Sang KIM, Byng-Mo JEON, Sang-Hyuk MUN, Seong-Wook MOON, Je-Ha SON, Young-Joon PARK, Chan-Ki MIN, Hye-Kil HWANG, Sung-Nam BAEK, Chul-Ho YU, Hyung-Mook YOON
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Publication number: 20220379731Abstract: An embodiment method of controlling traveling of an electrified vehicle equipped with an electric motor as a power source includes determining whether it is possible to enter a variable control function. The variable control function includes a function of variably controlling a coasting torque level using a regenerative braking force. In response to a determination that it is not possible to enter the variable control function, a cause of an inability to enter the variable control function is determined and control is performed in a manner that corresponds to a determination that it is possible to enter the variable control function or the determination of the cause of the inability to enter the variable control function in response to the determination that it is not possible to enter the variable control function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Jin Kyeom Cho, Seong Wook Moon, Myung Woo Kim, Joon Young Park, Sung Deok Kim
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Patent number: 11511729Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a hybrid vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a hybrid starter & generator (HSG) controller that determines whether an HSG has failed, and a hybrid vehicle controller that controls reverse drive by controlling locking up an engine clutch and maintaining a main relay of a battery to be continuously turned on, based on whether a request for the reverse drive is input from a user. The hybrid vehicle controller changes and applies a vehicle torque control calculation method based on a state of charge (SoC) of the battery, when the HSG has failed.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Seong Wook Moon, Jeong Eun Kim
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Patent number: 11414077Abstract: A method of guiding driving with low fuel efficiency using traffic light information includes: acquiring traffic light information on a forward traffic light, determining whether the vehicle is capable of passing through the forward traffic light without stopping based on the traffic light information, a current vehicle speed, and available acceleration and deceleration speeds, and when the vehicle is capable of passing through it without stopping, outputting a guidance speed for enabling the vehicle to pass through the forward traffic light without stopping. In particular, the forward traffic light information includes information on a current signal of the traffic light and information on a remaining time until the current signal is changed to another signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Kyu Hwan Jo, Hui Un Son, Jae Kyu Hyun, Seong Wook Moon, Do Hee Kim
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Publication number: 20220111838Abstract: An emergency braking function control method of a vehicle includes detecting an obstacle ahead of the vehicle, the vehicle being in a state of being travelable in a forward direction using power of a power source, in response to the detecting, determining a first steering angle and a second steering angle, the first steering angle being a maximum steering angle at which the vehicle collides with the obstacle and the second steering angle being a steering angle at which the vehicle turns while maintaining a minimum safe distance from the obstacle, the first and second steering angles being determined based on a distance to the obstacle, a heading of the obstacle, and an input steering angle, and determining whether to change an emergency braking function based on the input steering angle, the first steering angle, or the second steering angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Jin Kyeom Cho, Yeon Bok Kim, Hui Un Son, Tae Wook Park, Seong Wook Moon
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Publication number: 20210370780Abstract: A method of controlling an electrified vehicle to prevent a collision thereof includes: determining whether an accelerator pedal is erroneously operated in the situation in which an obstacle is detected to be present in a traveling path; and when it is determined that the accelerator pedal is erroneously operated, performing braking control such that at least one of hydraulic braking or regenerative braking is selectively performed in a plurality of braking sections determined based on a current vehicle speed and a distance to the obstacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Jin Kyeom Cho, Yeon Bok Kim, Sung Deok Kim, Tae Wook Park, Seong Wook Moon
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Publication number: 20210309205Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a hybrid vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes a hybrid starter & generator (HSG) controller that determines whether an HSG has failed, and a hybrid vehicle controller that controls reverse drive by controlling locking up an engine clutch and maintaining a main relay of a battery to be continuously turned on, based on whether a request for the reverse drive is input from a user. The hybrid vehicle controller changes and applies a vehicle torque control calculation method based on a state of charge (SoC) of the battery, when the HSG has failed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Seong Wook Moon, Jeong Eun Kim
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Patent number: 11136020Abstract: A hybrid vehicle and a method of calibrating a traveling direction of the hybrid vehicle are disclosed. The method of calibrating a traveling direction of a hybrid vehicle including a transmission not having a reverse gear includes: when an abnormality of a motor speed sensor is detected, calculating a difference between at least one of a first moving distance calculated based on sensor information during a predetermined time or a second moving distance calculated based on output torque and a third moving distance calculated based on a vehicle speed by a controller for controlling output torque; when an absolute value of the calculated difference is greater than a preset error reference, reversing the traveling direction recognized by the controller; and controlling a powertrain in response to a transmission lever state.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Jin Kyeom Cho, Seong Wook Moon, Sung Bae Jeon, Hui Un Son, Joon Young Park, Jea Mun Lee
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Publication number: 20210171041Abstract: A method of controlling a brake lamp of a vehicle including an electric motor as a power source includes determining whether gear shifting is required and whether there is a forward section with a suddenly changing slope when regenerative braking is performed through the electric motor without manipulation of an accelerator pedal or a brake pedal, delaying the gear shifting until the gear shifting exceeds a gear-shifting limit when the gear shifting is required and when there is the forward section with the suddenly changing slope, calculating acceleration based on regenerative braking torque while the gear shifting is delayed, and controlling the brake lamp based on the calculated acceleration.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Hui Un Son, Seong Wook Moon, Song Il Park, Sung Bae Jeon, Sung Hoon Yu, Joon Young Park, Chan Ho Lee
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Publication number: 20210101584Abstract: A hybrid vehicle and a method of calibrating a traveling direction of the hybrid vehicle are disclosed. The method of calibrating a traveling direction of a hybrid vehicle including a transmission not having a reverse gear includes: when an abnormality of a motor speed sensor is detected, calculating a difference between at least one of a first moving distance calculated based on sensor information during a predetermined time or a second moving distance calculated based on output torque and a third moving distance calculated based on a vehicle speed by a controller for controlling output torque; when an absolute value of the calculated difference is greater than a preset error reference, reversing the traveling direction recognized by the controller; and controlling a powertrain in response to a transmission lever state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Jin Kyeom CHO, Seong Wook MOON, Sung Bae JEON, Hui Un SON, Joon Young PARK, Jea Mun LEE